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Loving this fall weather that we are having with all the tree's changes. Soo beautiful!! I really enjoy this time of the year, because we are all ramping up for all the many holidays!! Beginning with one of my favorites Halloween! As Steve and I have been driving around different areas, we have seen some pretty amazing and scary Halloween decorations. One house has these mannequin heads on the porch that has axes, knives and pencils in them with oozing blood.

This weekend my brother was in town with his girlfriend. We went to this Fall Festival, where there were pumpkin launchers. The pumpkin launchers were aimed at an old car in the middle of a field and by the end of the festival the car was demolished. There was live music, auctions, food trucks and local produce for sale. It was great seeing my brother and visiting with him and his girlfriend.

We are still moving forward with our surrogate process. The legal side of it is almost done. We have found an attorney for our surrogate. Our surrogate and attorney needs to meet and discuss some items and then our attorney and surrogate's attorney are going to be in communication. The next step after all the legal stuff is extracting my eggs and tricking our surrogate's body that it is pregnant. Confusing, I know. At the beginning of this I knew that this process wasn't going to be easy, but now this whole thing is coming right along and each step closer I am getting more and more excited to add another member to our family.

Today Steve and I took Wrigley up into the foothills and enjoyed this amazing weather. This place is so beautiful and I am so grateful to experience it every single day.


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